Living with Dingoes...

You never own a dingo like a domestic dog! You can take the dingo out of the wild but never the wild out of the dingo... It's important to be 100% sure that you get all the information and education prior to making this full time commitment from experienced owners. This is a decision that will change your life. Dingoes will dig and jump fences and require a fully secure enclosure. Exercise is a necessity with attention given every day. Dingoes do make wonderful companion animals provided they get the care that they need. Dingoes are naturally gentle, shy and timid. They can be very friendly with the right person. When raised in human cohabitation they love to play and socialize. It takes a special tolerance, love and responsibility to keep a dingo in the home. You have to live to accommodate your Dingo not the other way around. The best age to acquire your dingo is between five and sixteen weeks old. Dingoes are more forward and develop more quickly than domestic dogs and need to bond best with a new family and environment early in life. Constant socialization and exposure to new environmental factors is required in the first year of their life for lasting success. Also for the dingoes well being it is important that they stay with their bonded family and familiar surrounding for their lifetime. They don't often have success in re-homing. More times than not they end up being euthanised. (put to sleep). That's why it is so very important to seriously consider that you can commit 100% and look after your dingo for their lifetime, before acting on a whim to own one. * Depending on where and which state you live in, there are different laws and requirements in owning a pure dingo. In Victoria you are required to have a permit from the Department of Sustainability and Environment and so forth. Check with your council.